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Press Release 22 February 2013

LAMY CHAPPUIS “ON FIRE” AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
INTERESTING MEETING BETWEEN FIEMME 2013 AND FALUN 2015

Jason Lamy Chappuis is the new Nordic Combined World Champion
Silver goes to Stecher and bronze to Kircheisen. Disappointing race for Frenzel
Fiemme 2013 meets Falun 2015 to talk about environment and sustainability issues

Allons Allons Jason! La Marseillaise echoes in Val di Fiemme and Jason Lamy Chappuis shouts….gold! The French athlete started in 11^th position after his fairly average jump in the morning at Predazzo saw his chance of a place on the podium look remote. But after the second lap of the cross-country ski phase at Lago di Tesero he was rapidly closing in on the lead group.
The final sprint involved four athletes: Lamy Chappuis, the Germans Frenzel and Kircheisen, and immediately followed by Mario Stecher (AUT). Lamy Chappuis came out on top with the best position and this secured him the title of world champion. Stecher and Kircheisen had the closest of photofinishes with Stecher getting the nod for the silver medal and Kircheisen the bronze.
From early in the morning the stands of the Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium was packed with fans and children from the schools around the valley. Cowbells and flags made a very colourful first competition for the Nordic combined athletes and the intermediate results were not a surprise. The best jumpers were all there and the Norwegian Klemetsen, who managed to take advantage of the lower starting gate, jumped 103,5m. Behind him the Austrians Stecher and Christoph Bieler took 2nd and 3rd. Stecher, who is one of the greatest jumpers and a veteran of this discipline, started his career with a victory in the World Cup in 1994. Frenzel, one of the favourites, came out with the 6th place then the Japanese athlete Watabe followed by the Norwegian Moan. Lamy Chappuis managed 11th position. At the end of the competition day Chappuis stated ”I hoped that I could win the gold medal but it was hard to believe it after my jump.” Hard but not impossible and this is a sign of a World Champion.

Two Falun 2015 Organizing Committee members, Mats Reutherborg and Mathias Westin, and a delegate for the environmental projects of Fiemme 2013 O.C. Danilo Buzzi met at the Main Media Center in Cavalese today.
The main goal of the meeting was to give the Swedish delegates an overview about how Fiemme has managed the environmental issues related to the World Championships currently underway.
The topics discussed included waste management, energy saving, transportation, the role of environmental awareness and the local wood as an important resource.
The Nordic World Ski Championships hosted in 2003 introduced waste management in the stadiums in Val di Fiemme for the first time. Ten years later, its importance has become more evident, as Danilo Buzzi says: “Waste is not to be seen only as waste, but as an important resource. We will probably succeed in recycling 85% of the overall waste”. The commitment to this goal is stressed by the presence of personnel exclusively dedicated to the careful waste separation, collection and recycling in the refreshment stands.
The role of volunteers at Fiemme 2013 (over 1300) was of particular interest since the Swedish Organising Committee doesn’t recruit volunteers, only employs paid staff. Not only was this aspect considered, but also the training volunteers received in environmental awareness. 
Local forests play an important role in achieving sustainable goals by providing the wood used in several ways including stands, scaffoldings, floors and also paper for press releases, documents and brochures. This strategy is part of the draft agreement between Nordic World Ski Championships Fiemme 2013 and the PEFC Italia (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification scheme) whose main keywords are sustainability, respect for the environment and achieving a “green” supply chain.
The potential of local forests is a common vision between the Italian and Swedish delegates, insomuch that Danilo Buzzi suggests a future partnership between the two Organising Committees regarding the use of wood as essential resource.
Info: www.fiemme2013.com 

Results

1 LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason FRA 29:13.2; 2 STECHER Mario AUT +0.2; 3 KIRCHEISEN Bjoern GER +0.3; 4 FRENZEL Eric GER +0.5; 5 KLEMETSEN Haavard NOR +16.2; 6 KATO Taihei JPN +24.7; 7 JELENKO Marjan SLO +32.3; 8 BIELER Christoph AUT +35.5; 9 WATABE Akito JPN +36.0; 10 KROG Magnus NOR +47.4